Settings Dashboard @ Group Level

Configuration refresh interval

It’s the interval in which BizTalk Server refreshes messaging configuration.

It basically refers to how often the messaging configuration (port configurations and such) is reloaded from the database by the BizTalk infrastructure to absorb changes that have been made.

Items involved in the refresh include the MessageBox databases, server properties, adapters, and connections to the Tracking database.

Message Batch Threshold

If the total size of an incoming message Batch exceeds this value, then BizTalk splits the incoming message into smaller batches for processing.

Large message size

Large Message Size refers to the size limit after which disk-backed streaming for batches and transformations will be used.

If the in-memory size of a received message exceeds the number of bytes specified for Large message size then the message is split into fragments of the specified size and the fragments are written into the MessageBox under the context MSDTC transaction.

Tracking and Reporting

Message box performance counter sampling interval

This is the interval at which performance counters are refreshed. It basically helps you trade off pressure on the database (because these counter values are populated by queries) against freshness in the data presented.

Enable group level tracking

This option turns the group level tracking for BizTalk Server on.

It basically allows you to have a master switch for tracking across the entire group (whereas this is normally a fine-grained per-artefact decision).